Added on December 13, 2016
Everett True
2016 , Aaradhna , Angel Haze , Angel Olsen , Beyonce , Bowie , Connections , Dexys , Ela Stiles , Everett True , Guerilla Toss , Hinds , Jenny Hval , Kendrick Lamar , Lady Gaga , M. Ward , Macy Gray , Mariza , Massive Attack , Nick Cave , No Sister , PJ Harvey , Porridge Radio , Rattle , Ravioli Me Away , Santigold , Skating Polly , Sophie Ellis-Bextor , Teen , Terry , The Goon Sax , The Nightingales , the tuts , The Wolfhounds
I sat in a convivial pub the other night as around me convivial sorts chattered and laughed. I could barely hear a word. Every so often, the sound of what appeared to be a band tuning up threatened to break down even that little of my personal space. I do not need, not REQUIRE an […]
Added on December 20, 2014
Everett True
7evenThirty , Alice Boman , Alvvays , Arponera , Arre! Arre! , BABAGANOUJ , BABYMETAL , Beyonce , Bloods , Crayola Lectern , DVA , Eight Rounds Rapid , Ela Stiles , Everett True , FKA twigs , Frankie Cosmos , Gifted Gab , Girlpool , Good Throb , Hospitality , Kim Deal , Lady Neptune , Manflu , Miley Cyrus , Neil Young , Perera Elsewhere , Princess Nokia , Rattle , Sleaford Mods , Sleater-Kinney , Song of the day , Stanley Brinks & Freschard , The 16th Century with The Legend! , The Aquadolls , The Lovely Wars , The Phi Mu Washboard Band , The Popguns , The Saints , The See Gulls , the tuts , The UV Race
This year stuttered in bits and firsts. Music is the healer. Here are the songs. The Aquadolls – Wander It’s knowing that passion can be full-tilt and consuming. It’s about Shadow Morton and Ellis Greenwich and 2014. It’s a love for the same love for that a ton of other folk show a love for but […]
Added on October 17, 2014
Everett True
Bedroom Suck , Blank Realm , Boomgates , Brisbane , Ela Stiles , Everett True , Kitchen\'s Floor , Knee Chin , Loose Grip , Lower Plenty , Peak Twins , Per Purpose , Peter Escott , Primitive Motion , Scott & Charlene's Wedding , scraps , Slug Guts , Song of the day , Terrible Truths
Music that doesn’t suck. There’s a Bedroom Suck compilation out: BSR5. It’s there to celebrate five years since the label was started by two discontents living in the steamy undergrowth of Brisbane, 27 tracks featuring… well, I’m guessing it features some fucking great Australian music. (I ain’t heard it, you understand.) Not much of a guess […]
Added on July 18, 2014
Everett True
Bedroom Suck , Bushwalking , Ela Stiles , Everett True , Song of the day , Songs
A slight diversion from my embarrassment of Spanish riches today, but well. Sometimes. You know? Sometimes. Sometimes you just got to enter the room two hours too late. This is better than when I saw the bats fly away from the balcony of the Old Museum. Better than a knight-alone checkmate when you’re black and […]
Added on June 5, 2014
Tom Randall
2014 , album review , Bedroom Suck , Ela Stiles , Fire Records , Tom Randall
What is ‘Ela Stiles’? Fleeting beauty, sunlight through a dense canopy. And the breathless darkness wrapping around you as the shards of illumination slip further out of reach. It is an artefact, as if uncovered by accident. Irregular in shape like it was worn by the passage of time, the first side comprising six songs […]
Added on February 28, 2014
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2014 , Blank Realm , Ela Stiles , Hockeysmith , Justin Edwards , Maximum The Hormone , Screamfeeder , Sky Ferreira , Slowdive , Soundwave 2014 , The Friday Playlist
So Soundwave came and went and the testosterone levels in Brisbane have returned to normal levels (at least as normal as you can get in Queensland). Doing some late, after-the-event reading-up about the festival, it was interesting to see, especially after last week’s playlist, that a Japanese stage was being rumored this year. This would […]